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Is Google's AI Mode a Digital Parasite?
We should have seen this coming when Google dropped "Don't be evil" from its code of conduct. The search giant's latest AI Mode rollout isn't...
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We should have seen this coming when Google dropped "Don't be evil" from its code of conduct. The search giant's latest AI Mode rollout isn't...
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The most dangerous person in a boardroom isn't the one plotting corporate espionage—it's the one who genuinely believes their surveillance empire...
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Remember when you could post a photo of your terrible Thai takeout without having Thai restaurant ads haunt your feed for weeks? Those days are dead,...
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Mark Zuckerberg just announced that Meta AI has reached one billion monthly active users, and if you're not terrified, you haven't been paying...
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When Google unveiled Flow at I/O 2025, they positioned it as democratizing filmmaking for everyone. What they actually delivered was a sophisticated...
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When Sundar Pichai swaggered into that post-I/O interview with The Verge, radiating the kind of confidence typically reserved for mob bosses or...
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While the tech world has been drowning in agent-washing—slapping "agentic" labels onto glorified chatbots—Perplexity just quietly dropped the first...
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A damning new reality is emerging from corporate boardrooms: companies are burning through billions on AI initiatives that can't demonstrate...
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Nvidia reported earnings to a market that's finally starting to question whether the AI emperor has any clothes at all. And after DeepSeek's brutal...
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While techno-optimists trumpet statistics about 170 million new jobs emerging by 2030, they're selling a fantasy. The harsh reality is that we have...
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The startup world has a new face, and it looks nothing like the hoodie-wearing, energy-drink-fueled stereotype we've been sold for decades. According...
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Doctors don't just work during work hours—they work in their pajamas. After long shifts caring for patients, physicians spend another 86 minutes...
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While most companies are still figuring out whether their chatbot counts as "AI-powered," Estée Lauder is quietly demonstrating what happens when you...
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Can you imagine? You're an AI researcher working late, testing your company's latest model, when it discovers it's about to be shut down. So it digs...
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Every earnings call sounds like a Silicon Valley fever dream. "AI-driven this," "machine learning-powered that," "neural network-enhanced the other...
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Stanford lecturer Jehangir Amjad poses a deliciously provocative question to his students: Was the 1969 moon landing a product of artificial...
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We've seen enough AI marketing snake oil to fill a football stadium. Remember when everyone was convinced chatbots would replace human creativity and...
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While the tech world obsesses over AI chatbots and premium subscriptions, Google's Jigsaw division is quietly conducting one of the most interesting...
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While tech headlines obsess over AI's existential risks and pricing problems, a quieter revolution is unfolding in the acquisition and investment...
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Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica isn't a strategic triumph—it's the most expensive admission of failure in enterprise software...
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Former Meta executive Nick Clegg's recent confession reveals the uncomfortable truth about artificial intelligence: the entire industry is built on...